Oh dear! Five days into the New Year and I'm already behind!
I do have a reason, though, as I really didn't feel like writing this last night at all when I got home from work. Yesterday was sad as we had to tell five of our Nursery staff that they would not have a job after January. We've made the decision to shut down the Nursery part of the business which has been limping along for a good few months and is just not making enough money. The last straw was our Nursery Manager leaving at the end of December and under Ofsted, we need to have a Manager in place to continue. As our numbers are so low, we can't afford somebody really good to take the Nursery on and turn it around, so that's that.
We've had the Nursery since 1999 and things have changed unbelievably over the last few years since Ofsted took over, rather than Social Services who made sure we took care of the children properly. With Ofsted it's all about education so I think the time is right to get out and do something different with the space we have.The paperwork is becoming horrendous and it will be a relief not to have to deal with it any more.
So yesterday was rather stressful as we were busy at work, the noise level was tremendous and we had to see girls that have worked with us for a long time to tell them that they would be out of a job in February. I have a feeling they knew it was coming but it was very sad nonetheless. I was mightily glad to get home and have a relaxing game of cards with Keith in the evening, draw the curtains and shut out the winter night!
3 comments:
Oh! Dear, not so good....do you have to pay the staff any redundancy Janie?
Sorry to hear this Jane, it must be a very stressful time for you all, I hope you can resolve it so you can move on.
SWS
We've had to make staff redundant, yes, but it looks like some of them will find new jobs easily which is a relief for us.
It's been a stressful week - I'm looking forward to the weekend!
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